working title No. 5
A pilgrimage through sacred spaces, profane realities, and everything in between!exhibition of experimental art+music
MAY 28 - 30, 2026, 6:00 – 9:00 PM → ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL
Project [BLANK]’s annual exhibition returns to close the season with a festival of innovative local art and music. This year’s WORKING TITLE fills the soaring gothic halls of St. Paul’s Cathedral with bold visual art, multimedia installations, performance art, and live experimental music from a diverse group of transborder artists.
This year, WORKING TITLE centers on the theme of Sanctuary. What defines a sacred or protected space? What boundaries—physical, social, spiritual—are drawn to offer refuge to those under threat? We invite artists to submit works that engage with sanctuary as a personal experience, a collective practice, an architectural condition, or a political act of resistance.
At its center is the world premiere of a major new work by San Diego composer Michelle Lou—a mind-melting composition for voices, tubas, pipe organ, and electronics—surrounded by three days of new works, installations, and thought-provoking performances from some of the most exciting creative voices in Southern California, Tijuana, and Baja California.
The exhibition is curated by sculptor Diana Benavídez and Artistic Director Leslie Ann Leytham, and artist submissions will be reviewed by a panel of artists: Alessandra Moctezuma, Alvaro Díaz, Cat Gunn, and Luisa Martínez.
artists
performance art
ANGIE JENNINGS
sculpture
APRIL ROSE
sculpture
ARMANDO DE LA TORRE
video art
carolina montejo
sculpture
claudia cano
performance art
FRANKIE MARTIN
performance art
JAIME LEYNES
sculpture
joe canrell
music performance
gabriel arregui
music performance
ANQI LIU
dance
DIA BASSETT
music performance
don nichols
music performance
DUO LINGUA
music performance
jonathan nussman
music performance
JONATHAN Piper
video
Leila K Aghdami
music performance
leslie ann leytham
music performance
julia anne cordani
sculpture
maddie butler
music performance
marguerite brown
music performance
mattie barbier
music performance
melissa achten
sculpture
matthew hebert
composer
michelle lou
sculpture
shar garcia
sculpture
tasia paulson
music performance
william kuo
video
sophia cleary
sculpture
yerbamala
sculpture
waniuk+
bourdeau
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